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November 5, 2026 - Presented to: Assembly Committee on Water, Parks, and Wildlife Assembly Committee on Local Government
November 5, 2026 - Since 2020, California’s budget situation has been turbulent. Over the last six years, it has swung from a significant pandemic-era budget deficit that never materialized, to record-breaking surpluses, to large and persistent deficits. The state now faces an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven revenue surge that is masking—but not resolving—an underlying structural shortfall. In this post, we review this recent history of the state’s budget situation and assess where we are now.
October 21, 2026 - Presented to: Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 5 on Corrections, Public Safety, Judiciary, Labor and Transportation
October 19, 2026 - This post summarizes the state’s 2026-27 spending package for health. It is part of our Spending Plan series. In this post, we provide an overview of the state’s health spending package, then cover spending for Medi-Cal, the State Hospitals, Public Health, Health Care Access and Information, Health and Human Services Agency, and Covered California. Appendix tables at the end of this post summarize the major spending actions and budget solutions in the health budget.
October 9, 2026 - This post summarizes Proposition 98 funding and K-12 education spending in the 2026-27 budget package.
October 8, 2026 - The 2026-27 spending plan provides around $41 billion from the General Fund for human services programs across ten state departments, councils, and commissions.
October 5, 2026 - This post begins by providing an overview of total spending for the departments overseen by the California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA) and California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA). Next, we discuss certain cross-cutting issues that affect departments in both agencies, including spending from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF). We then discuss individual departments that had notable budget changes within each of the two agencies. We conclude with a summary of budget allocations from Proposition 4, the climate bond approved by voters in November 2024.
October 2, 2026 - The Supplemental Report of the 2026-27 Budget Act contains statements of legislative intent that were adopted during deliberations on the 2026-27 budget package.
October 2, 2026 - This post discusses features of the state's spending plan that were not covered elsewhere in the 2026-27 Spending Plan series.
October 1, 2026 - This post fulfills the requirement enacted by Chapter 5 of 2023 (AB 111, Committee on Budget) that our office estimate the number of Californians who were able to exclude student loan forgiveness from state income taxation and the total amount of loan forgiveness excluded as a result of new, temporary income tax exclusions enacted by Chapter 5.
September 30, 2026 - In this post, we summarize some of the most notable components of child care and state preschool program budgets in the 2026-27 state spending plan.
September 28, 2026 - This post summarizes the state’s 2026‑27 spending package for higher education. In this post, we provide an overview of the state’s higher education spending package, then cover spending for the California Community Colleges (CCC), California State University (CSU), University of California (UC), student financial aid, and a few other areas. Our EdBudget tables provide more detail about the 2026‑27 education budget.
September 25, 2026 - In this post, we identify some of the major actions taken in the 2026-27 budget process for judicial and criminal justice programs.
September 22, 2026 - In this post, we summarize some of the most notable components of transportation program budgets in the 2026-27 state spending plan.
September 18, 2026 - The 2026-27 budget package contains a number of major actions pertaining to agency reorganization, housing, homelessness, local government, and other actions, as described in this post.